Sell data to AI labs: which doors are open to a company
A frontier lab rarely buys a single company's records straight off a form. OpenAI's own data-partnership page says it is not seeking datasets with sensitive or personal information, or information that belongs to a third party, and adds that it can work with a company to remove that information if it needs help. So a company can go to the lab's own door, or to a vendor or broker that prepares the records first.
- buyers and brokers that print a payout figure
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- of 10 read
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- checked October 2026
Everything attributed to a buyer or broker on this page is quoted from that firm's own page, read through our fetch service and hash-pinned to the stored read, with the date beside it.
- 10 buyers readevery answer matched to the firm's own sentence
- Quoted, dated, never scoredlast read 2026-10-12
- 0 countrieswhere a firm says which companies it takes
How a company's records reach a lab
- Check what the lab's own door refuses. OpenAI's page names what it will not take, personal and third-party information, and offers to help remove it. Customer messages and third-party records fall on that line until they are taken out.
- Or find a vendor that prepares the records. Nyne describes de-identified operational workflows; micro1 discusses a company's data and privacy requirements on a discovery call. Both start with a call rather than a price list.
- Meet the vendor's own test. micro1 states 30 or more employees; Nyne states 20 or more full-time US W-2 staff and several years of real workflows.
- Agree terms before anything leaves the building. Every page we read asks for a conversation before data moves. The terms, the buyer and the fee should be in writing first.
What a lab says it wants
OpenAI's page asks for large datasets that are not already easy to reach online, in any modality, and turns away personal or third-party information. A company's own process documents, code and records of how work gets done are closer to that than its customer list.
Why some companies use a vendor
The vendors named here ask for a company's operational records and run the conversation about privacy for it: Nyne describes de-identified workflows, and micro1 discusses data and privacy requirements on its discovery call. It is one route to a lab; OpenAI's own offer to help remove personal information is another.
Questions sellers ask
- Can a small company sell straight to OpenAI?
- Its public page offers a form for data partnerships but no size test and no price, and it says it is not looking for personal or third-party information. It adds that it can work with a company to remove that information if it needs help.
- Which buyers state a minimum size?
- Of the pages we read, micro1, Nyne, License Your Data and License My Data state one, from 20 to 30 employees.
- Does any lab publish a price?
- None of the lab pages we read prints a figure. The figures on this site come from brokers' own pages.
Sources
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The number of buyers and brokers with an answer read on their own pages in buyers and brokers of company data was 10 in October 2026, across 10 buyers and brokers read recorded in SellYourDataToAI Company Data Buyer Index.
Cite as: "SellYourDataToAI Company Data Buyer Index", updated 2026-10-12, https://sellyourdatatoai.com/sell-data-to-ai-labs/.